Thursday, July 26. 2007

Fedora's default browser Firefox comes from the Mozilla Foundation. Unlike early releases of the Mozilla Application Suite (or "classic Mozilla"), it is a pure web browser. If you miss the bundled features of the Mozilla Suite, the Seamonkey package will give you what you want: web browser, e-mail and newsgroup client, address book, WYSIWYG page editor, IRC client, DOM inspector, and JavaScript debugger, all integrated into a single program.

Seamonkey is maintained by a dedicated group of Mozilla volunteers who incorporate code from the main Mozilla projects such as Firefox and Thunderbird. I do almost all of my browsing in Firefox, but my daughters use Seamonkey Composer to create personal web pages.

Installing from the command line:yum install seamonkeyInstalling using the graphical installer: Not available in browse mode; use the Search or List tabs to install seamonkeyMenu location after installation: Applications > Internet > Seamonkey Mail and Seamonkey Web BrowserCommand:/usr/bin/seamonkeyUpstream website:http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

As an experienced Mozilla Suite user I latch right on to the Seamonkey project from day one, everything was familiar to me. The installer works great, updating takes just a few minutes and is no big deal for most linux users. I use it on a Windows laptop too, recommend it to friend often.

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